Fazl-e-Umar — Page 127
Fazle Umar 127 As this clique was preparing the ground for a silent amalgamation with non- Ahmadis, propagation of the message of Ahmadiyyat obviously was not among its plans. Here let us return for a moment to the day the Promised Messiah [as] passed away. As we observed earlier, on that day Hadhrat Sahibzada Sahib had taken a silent but stupendous vow that even if the whole world forsook the Promised Messiah [as] and forgot the purpose which it was his mission to fulfil, he, for one, would never forsake him or lose sight of that purpose. When these tendencies, of which we have been trying to pick up the thread, began to manifest themselves to his discerning eye, he must have been haunted by thoughts of the responsibility that devolved upon him from that vow, and his helplessness to do anything. But he was not made in a mould that throws up his hands in despair and sinks without striking a blow. Driven on by an inner fire that would not let him rest, he decided on a course of action, which in its intrinsic possibilities was little better than a drowning man clutching at a straw. But God, who sees what is inside the heart rather than the volume of achievement, prospered the venture and it became the prelude to bigger and ever bigger things. In 1911 he started an association to which the name Anjuman Ansarullah was given. The idea to form this Anjuman came to him in a dream and it was formed after Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih [ra] had approved of the idea. Its membership was open to everybody, the only condition imposed being that one should apply for admission after performing Istikhara for seven days. Obligations which membership imposed were to strive for the propagation of Islam, to try to carry the message of Ahmadiyyat to the world, to study the Holy Qur’an deeply and intensely, regularity in Tahajjud (prayers before Fajr), endeavour to compromise any differences arising between Ahmadis in the course of social contacts and loyalty to the Government. 84 These were very laudable aims, and there was nothing either in the conception or